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blue-rinse
[ bloo-rins ]
adjective
- of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women:
the blue-rinse matinee audience.
blue rinse
noun
- a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
adjective
- denoting or typifying an elderly, well-groomed, socially active, and comparatively wealthy woman
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blue-rinse1
First recorded in 1975–80; so called from the bluish tinge produced by certain rinses used on gray hair
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